People

*Anna-Joy Rickard – Director

Anna-Joy Rickard has a background in project management and advocacy in international development and the UK charity sector, and has previously worked for World Vision UK and The Children’s Society. She spent two years volunteering in Argentina and Brazil supporting community work, and has also worked in Costa Rica and undertaken research in Pakistan. Anna-Joy holds an MSc in Poverty Reduction and Development Management from the University of Birmingham and is a graduate from the University of Oxford.

anna-joy.rickard[at]humanitariancentre.org
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*Anne Radl – Projects Manager

Anne’s professional background is in community health education, support and wellness.  Prior to joining  the Humanitarian Centre, she was the Volunteer Services Manager at a San Francisco-based nonprofit organisation, Shanti, which provides support and wellness services for people living with life-threatening illnesses.  Before her work at Shanti, she served for two years as a Community Health Educator in the United States Peace Corps, on the agricultural coast of Berbice and the remote village of Wakapoa, She received her master’s degree from the University of Cambridge, where she studied Social Anthropology and International Development.  She also studied anthropology as an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley

anne.radl[at]humanitariancentre.org

 

  Tom Hird – Communications Officer

Tom comes from a scientific back ground having completed in undergraduate degree in Biology at Imperial College London in summer 2011. His interest in international development was sparked by travel and research, as part of his undergraduate degree, in Sub-saharan and South Africa. His main interests include Global Health,  Infectious Diseases,  especially disease interventions having written and published a paper on disease vaccinology,  health in conflict/disaster zones and human rights.

tom.hird[at]humanitariancentre.org

 

Claire Hancock – Networks Officer

Claire comes from an educational background, having previously been a primary school teacher here in Cambridge and having worked with the Ministry of Education in Malawi as a VSO volunteer. Claire holds a BA (Hons) from the University of Durham, a PGCE from Homerton College and will obtain an MSc in International Rural Development from the Royal Agricultural College in September 2012 upon successful completion of her dissertation.

claire.hancock[at]humanitariancentre.org

 

Steve Jones – Chair of Trustees

Steve Jones is a Founding Trustee and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Humanitarian Centre.  He is an international development consultant with over 30 years’ experience in UK/Europe, Asia, Africa, the CIS, the Caribbean and the South Pacific. He is a partner in a small Cambridge-based consultancy firm – Meta-Development LLP- and specialises in: leading design and evaluation missions for social protection, livelihoods, health and education and climate change and post-disaster reconstruction programmes; management consulting and organisational development; facilitation of strategic workshops  and international conferences, process facilitation, and training on programme cycle management, including logical framework analysis. His clients include DFID, World Bank, European Union, NGOs and private sector firms.

 

You can find a list of the current Trustees of the Humanitarian Centre here.